Creative  Healing  Movement

Your style is safe and appropriate for anyone, well done and thank you.

~ Clyde, Movement Therapy class student, 2021

The meditation was excellent in all respects.  Meditation has been a part of my life for many years, for stress relief.  I have now included the sounds you taught and I get the energy movement immediately now.  I have gained through grounding; everyday I expierence a benifit and I'm having a better life due to you!!!! 

~ Betsy, Meditation Movement student, 2020

This has been a really great class and a great course.  I really appreciate your kindness, patience, and clarity. 

~ Kit, Chair Yoga student, 2020

I have an arthritic left hip and am now able to squat instead of bending my back and leaning over.  Using my core has made a difference.  The stairs are very easy because I am using my core, it is like a breeze. 

~ Student from 2020 Chair Yoga class, UH Osher Lifelong Learning classes online

This was my first chair yoga class. . . and I love your emphasis on our belly muscles...exactly what I need.

~ Ginny, UH Osher Lifelong Learning student, 2020

This was an amazing class.  Thank you for sharing your expertise.

~ Stress Relief class student from UH Osher Lifelong Learning Institute

I am changed.  So, thank you. 

~ Linda, online 4 week class student 2020

I took your class.  The small movements has been a major playor in my life and I do not use a cane anymore because of it.  It has shown me that the smallest details are important.

~Dona, UH Manoa Lifelong Learning student  2020

There was a real sense of freedom in jumping, flying.  I have not felt free in the last few months. 

~Margaret, UH Manoa Lifelong Learning student  2020

Thank you again for showing me how to tap into my true inner self and all the empowerment of positivity that I have been expierencing.  I am living cancer FREE for the last week!!!  I have been blessed!  I did put into pracice the "buzzing" sound that you gifted me with.  I believe that was one of the pieces to my success!

~L. Nuuanu  meditation student / continuum client  2019

I usually take 4 asprin a day.  Now the pain is less and I am only taking 2 asprin as a preventative.   After 3 weeks of Movement Therapy class and Tai Chi class, I feel good. 

~Student from UH Manoa Life Long Learning classes   2018

I feel the energy moving through my whole body. 

~ B. LMT   after receiving Continuum Bodywork Movement Therapy   2018

As you led the meditation, I became aware of how I was connected to all nature.

~ Botanical Garden Meditation class 2017

I can't believe how good I feel after that class.  I am just floating along.  My joints are oiled.  You just put it together beautifully.  

~ Continuum Movement class student 2017

Thank you.  I feel alive all over; top to bottom, left to right, and inside out.  Just what I needed.

~ Yoga student after class 2017

I started practicing every day when I get up and go to bed, so almost twice a day.  My head felt like it was full and now is clear.  It feels so totally different.  I have at least half of my energy back.  My husband could not keep up with me on our walk.  He usually passes me and keeps going.  I thought it was old age.  This has encouraged me to do more and go back to yoga.

~ M. Kailua, HI           Trouble with memory and prior head trauma    2017 

My lungs are better because of you.  I used to take two Asthma medications three times a day in both San Jose and Hawaii.  Then I just needed it in San Jose, and now I do not take them at all.  I have been off all Asthma medications for six months.  It is from the bodywork and from drinking eucalyptus tea.  I am legally Handicapped and I have not used my wheelchair in two years, except on airplane travel.  After Continuum Movement the severity and frequency of pain is less.   

~ D.  San Jose, CA        Healing retreat in Kailua, HI     2017

It is a remarkable thing how much better I feel after.  I like the customized training.  In one way I feel relaxed and in another way refreshing.  It is almost pleasure to walk again.  What I need to do is to have more control and based on what I learned from you, this is almost instantaneous.  I am doing what you recommend, but I enjoy doing this movement and it makes regular life a lot easier.   This eliminates the need of worry or concern.    The way you present this is well said, to the point, and it works beautifully.  

~ R. Kailua, HI            client with Parkinson's disease      2017

I am more in control of my speech and actions.

~ K. Kailua, HI             client with Parkinson's disease      2017

I am doing so much better.  I am practicing Continuum on a regular basis.  It is very beneficial, before I sleep.  This is like coming back into myself, me again.

~ D.   San Jose, CA       Healing retreat in Kailua, HI     2016



My blood sugar A1C test went from 7.2 to 6.5.  The only thing that really changed was eating the food you gave me.  (Diabetic 3 month average test)

~ J.   San Jose, CA       Healing retreat in Kailua, HI   three weeks     2016



It feels like I just got a full body massage.  Just what I needed. 

~ Yoga student after attending yoga class    2016

I think I grew an inch taller.  My back feels better. 

~ Yoga student after attending yoga class    2016

 I am feeling so good.  It  is very light.  I can't remember my brain has felt this light.  I feel some of the Continuum Movement right away and some of it twenty four hours later.

~ D.   San Jose, CA       Healing retreat in Kailua, HI     2016

I feel younger.

~ S.  San Jose, CA    after  one hour phone appointment    2016

I feel like I am communicating with my body better. 

~ T.   Kailua, HI   2015

My life has made a dynamic shift and a dynamic change, ever since I worked with you  [three appointments].   I can feel your source.  You believe in me and it ignites some spiritual connection.  Your presence is an influence on my well being.  You allowed me to move in the direction of my growth.  Everybody needs support to move into their highest good.  You opened a doorway.

~ Johnny MacAdam, RYT     Laguna Beach, CA     2015

Second Appointment:    

First you put me at peace, you slowed me down.  Then with time, my breathing became slower.  After that my body was brought to become with the universal energy rather than resisting it.  Each part of my body melting into the earth.  My mind watched as each body part was soothed, comforted.  This allowed for the healing to take place.  I do not pretend to understand but I feel the release of pain.     

 Third Appointment:      

My body was not aware of any points on the ground and it was moving.  As you went to each part I was able to let that part go and it became zero gravity.  [We were outside on a stone patio] and I did not feel pressure of laying on the stones.  The energy of universe took me in and I was with it.  I was not a solo entity alone and I was complete.  I have never that experience of being that awake.  As you moved around my body I felt an energy force in the universe.  When we are a live we have that.  When we age, we are not attending to that power.  You can feel it from a tree or the ocean.  It is a real gift you have, to help me let go of the fear.  I let myself get depleted by helping other people.  Now, I feel very different.            

 ~ D.   San Jose, CA       Healing retreat in Kailua, HI     2014

Kathryn's unique combination of mind-body awareness, functional movement, and excellent communication has helped me work through a chronic lower back condition.  She noticed that simple things like bending over and getting up from a chair were aggravating my back.  Her clear instructions and examples showed me that I was moving my body just plain wrong and that I could use my whole body to achieve these and other movements in a healthy and healing way.

 ~ Jeff Edman, MD      Kailua, HI      2014     

 My feet do feel better.  They were gnarled up. They are more flexible, much more open.            ~ Chris,  Rolfing Practitioner     Waimanalo, HI       2014  

I started out so stiff and now I feel more fluid on that side.  This is customized therapy.  You just need to show up and the energy flows where the energy goes.

 ~ M. Kailua, HI    2013          

When we began talking, I was so anxious and full of fear that I couldn't sit still and I was breathing hard. As we talked, and afterwards, my fears receded, and I gained clarity and insight into what was causing so much fear and anxiety. I then became able to acknowledge both the fear and the reason for it. This helped me calm down and create a safe place for myself to begin to make plans and decisions from a more centered place.

 ~ L. Jacksonville, FL  (phone session Sept. 2013)        

I love the way you are pacing.  You stay connected.  You have a gift for connect that allows a person to connect with their selves, that blessed part of self, that being part of us that brings healing and laughter or tears. Kathryn has a gift.

 ~ K. Maryneal, TX  (in person in California)

Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 7:56 PM     Subject: thank you!!!

Dearest Kathryn,

My pain was absent today almost entirely.  I gardened, cleaned windows, danced with my daughter, wow.  Thank you so much.

 ~ M. Berkeley, CA

In my time of knowing Kathryn, I have known her to be a person of high integrity with her clients, students, and friends.  She cares deeply about healing at depth as a principle in her life.  It can be felt when you are with her.  Kathryn is also a natural teacher who teaches spontaneously with presence and movement.  I know that she naturally supports and encourages others in the deep value of working at an appropriate pace and depth.  She is well suited to guide others to work in this way.

 ~ J. Sunnyvale, CA

Kathryn is very engaged as a communicator.  She listens thoroughly, processes information quickly and responds appropriately and with insight.  Her manner is calm and she is good in a crisis.  She is one of the most empathetic people I know.

 ~ L. San Francisco, CA

You were able to open up things in him that other people weren't able to.  You basically made a breakthrough in areas he did not know were closed.

 ~ S. San Jose, CA (wife of a client)

It was a very turbulent time for me and that was a very helpful way of getting grounded that I wouldn't have thought of on my own or been able to accomplish without your guidance.

 ~ A. Palo Alto, CA

It has been helpful today.  It always is.  I like the fluid movement to where I don't feel so stuck and rigid.  It's good stuff.  I don't feel like I'm in that stuck place anymore.  I always tell therapists that I'm stuck.  I feel safe with you.

 ~ S. New Haven, MO [after a phone session]

My back is getting better.  Lots better.  I mostly forget there was anything wrong with it.

 ~ J. San Jose, CA

Sent:   Wednesday,  January 4,  2012  2:57 PM      Subject: feet

Kathryn,

I just wanted to give you a testimonial, should you need one.  I was feeling scared about my body, I could not move in the way that I amused to, even dancing was not as fun or possible as it used to be; and you asked me the simplest questions.  I drew out my answers with markers, just going with it instead of editing or thinking it was silly.  It was as if I were a child trying to recount a dream.  I love it that we centered on feet, and you reinforced for me that healing often has so little to do with the "ouch" at hand, but about everything connected to it from the past, present, and fear of future.

Since meeting with you I have had massage therapists comment on my feet when the whole "problem" is the hip and shoulders; and they showed me exercises to do with them.  Working with you really helped me get to the bottom of things and focus on grounding with my feet first. Whether it is feeling my feet on the earth and getting into a meditative state, or simply focusing on the way I strike the ground with every step of a blissful walk-- all of it focuses on working from the ground up.

Once that started to kick in, the other problems have shown signs of disappearing.  Such a cool confirmation of health and faith, with focus on parts of ourselves that surely would have been overlooked in a more symptom-based assessment.

Yaaa!

 ~ T. Napa Valley, CA

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